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Subject: Re: POP3 proxy
From: Blast <blast @ worldbit . com>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 14:11:21 -0800 (PST)
To: admin @ unicc . org
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <9611061928 . AA28418 @ gh-old . unicc . org>

On Wed, 6 Nov 1996 admin @
 unicc .
 org wrote:

> Does anybody know about a POP3 proxy? What is especially interesting for me is
> to allow the outgoing POP traffic so that our users can check their mail on
> remote POP servers, outside our firewall. I know I can do it with a generic
> gateway, but it only allows many to one, i.e. many clients to one server. I'd
> like to implement many to many. The packet filtering is something I'd like to
> avoid as I'd have to open all the ports > 1023 for incoming (server's) traffic with ack bit set.

We have one that works like the -gw apps in the Firewall Toolkit.
We will be releasing a beta in a few days.  I will post the URL
as soon as it is up for grabs.  It is called pop-gw and
the author is my partner in crime Jeremy Cooper.

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